Visualizing International Merchandise Trade

The purpose of this website is to look at world trade data of imports and exports. We compared between both and extracted how it effects income class around the world.

World trade is how countries around the world interact through commercial means. This includes buying and selling commodities.

Data

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The data is obtained from the WTO (World Trade Organization), which is the only global international organization that oversees international trade. Link to website.

Below is a snippet of the raw data we got from the website.

Reporting Economy Product/Sector Partner Economy 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
World SI3_AGG - TO - Total merchandise World 16,035,818 17,740,817 19,549,257 19,014,182 17,648,303 22,343,840 24,904,489
World SI3_AGG - AG - Agricultural products World 1,584,357 1,729,920 1,805,801 1,782,880 1,803,726 2,162,376
World SI3_AGG - AGFO - Food World 1,356,079 1,472,607 1,533,691 1,531,509 1,570,025 1,848,012
World SI3_AGG - MI - Fuels and mining products World 2,033,877 2,612,022 3,269,207 3,097,493 2,334,297 3,654,527
World SI3_AGG - MIFU - Fuels World 1,492,452 1,948,475 2,529,449 2,366,575 1,576,992 2,547,614
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Categories of Trade

Product/Sectors
Agricultural products
Food
Fuels and mining products
Fuels
Manufactures
Iron and Steel
Chemicals
Pharmaceuticals
Machinery and transport equipment
Office and telecom equipment
Electronic data processing and office equipment
Telecommunications equipment
Integrated circuits and electronic components
Transport equipment
Automotive products
Textiles
Clothing

Top 5 exporters

Visualizations

Top 5 importers

Exports: Agricultural Products

Imports: Fuel and Mining Products

Class map

Top 5 Exporters: Annual Total Export Values

Top 5 Importers: Annual Total Import Values

About the team

Ziyun

Emmanuel